Chapter 768: The Renewed Worship of God
So, Abdul. Mohammed. Gachi and Mahmud. Shefkate was very surprised to see the sight of a huge 'river crab giant beast' running rampant with eight claws in Yangon City!
"How is this possible?" Isn't Myanmar an independent country that has existed for a long, long time? Isn't there a long dynastic history here? How did you become so peaceful in front of you?
As a Chinese-dominated city, Yangon City also seems to have been infused with Chinese culture. The Chinese people are modest and gentle, and it is not for nothing that they will bully others and do evil, but they will never occupy the majority, and that kind of people will be naturally rejected and despised by the Chinese people. In Liu Xian's words, after the Northern Song Dynasty, China has been corrupted by cynicism for seven or eight hundred years, and it has forgotten its aggressiveness, and has not yet learned how to be a qualified colonizer or occupier! Therefore, in Central Asia, the Volga River Valley, and North America, Liu Xian will settle a large number of veterans and let these veterans get involved in the grassroots management of villages and towns. That is to strengthen the hardness of the bones of the Chinese people!
But in Myanmar, where Buddhism is the mainstay, the Chinese people also have the advantage of doing so, and the Chinese coexist well with the local indigenous 'river crabs' in Myanmar. Combined with the sharp scene of the Buddha in the Southern Heavenly Kingdom next door also becoming a brother of God, the Burmese people will always sigh about their luck. There is really a sense of happiness when there is a comparison!
Therefore, Yangon City, the richest city in Myanmar and the richest city in Myanmar, is even more popular with China and Myanmar. Even in Myanmar, there is a real resistance force, and these people are not only few in number under the encirclement of the National Defense Forces. Most of it is also burrowed into the rainforests of northern Myanmar. Even then they will not get away from the pursuit of the Wehrmacht. Some of China's national defense forces are reconnaissance units that are specially used to fight in tropical areas. It's the devil in the hearts of these rebels!
Abdul in the city of Yangon. Mohammed. Gache, there is no trace of the 'conqueror' at all. It is Istanbul, the most powerful in Sudan. There was no such peaceful atmosphere. The Chinese and Burmese are everywhere, and apart from the fact that their clothes are very different, you can hardly imagine that they are two peoples.
In fact, in Yangon City, ethnic conflict is most intense between the Burmese and the Karen people, not the Burmese and the Chinese.
As a traditional Buddhist country, the trauma brought by the British to Myanmar is not only in terms of physical wealth and sovereignty, but also in terms of ideology and belief.
Because they are Catholic in a monotheistic religion.
John Bull's colonial rule first complicated the inhabitation of the original 4 million Lower Burmese people. Before colonial rule, the main inhabitants of Lower Burma were Burmese, Mon, Karen and Rakhine. Most of them are Buddhists. Only a portion of the Karen people believe in the primitive religion, and some Rakhine residents follow the Green Religion. Yangon also has some Indians and a small number of Chinese and Europeans, but they make up a very small percentage of the total population. Decades of British colonial rule in Lower Burma led to significant demographic changes, most notably the increase in Indians. In 1872, there were 25,000 Indians in Yangon alone, more than one-quarter of the Burmese natives. There has also been a significant increase in the number of Europeans, mainly British, who are politically and economically dominant. The religious beliefs of the inhabitants are more complicated. The majority of Indians in Myanmar are Hindu, and some are green. Europeans and Americans believe in monotheism. European and American missionaries were quite effective in spreading monotheism among the Karen people. In 1881, some Christian Karen people formed the Karen National Union. Therefore, before the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Burmese War, there had been racial and ethnic contradictions and ethnic contradictions in Lower Burma for a long time. For example, the conflict between the Burmese and the Indians, and the conflict between the Burmese and the Karen people, all originated during the period of British rule.
Buddhism, the traditional religion of Burma, declined under colonial rule. By the 80s of the 19th century. At least half of the villages in Lower Myanmar do not have monasteries. To a certain extent, the sharp rule of the British was like 'driving the king'. It has laid a good foundation for China's ownership.
The modest Chinese did not use expropriation to stimulate the national heart of the Burmese people, and they did not say anything about Burma. Only in Lower Burma, after a large number of Indians left, the contradiction between the Burmese and the Karen is still the most fierce ethnic confrontation in Lower Burma today. Is it because China practices freedom of belief?
"Mahmud, this place is completely different from what I imagined, I feel like I have come to a simple heavenly city." Abdul. Mohammed. Gage was shocked by what he saw, the city was not without arguments and shouting, but the atmosphere in the whole city was very peaceful, and all the quarrels did not go beyond the scope of 'normal'. "Hasn't the Chinese occupied Myanmar just two years ago? Am I mistaken? Or do the Chinese really have magical powers? ”
The acute national contradictions within the Ottoman Empire were a mortal threat that had not existed since the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Compared to the city in front of him, Abdul. Mohammed. Garch felt that his ancestors had failed too much.
Mahmud had a smile on his face, and the current performance of the Chinese made him somewhat believe the Chinese. "Your Highness, this is just a wealthy harbor and does not really represent the problem. It is the poor countryside that really reflects the truth. But we don't have time to visit the countryside of Myanmar, so don't jump to conclusions, we have more time to scrutinize every piece of land we take our next trip.
The Burmese are Buddhists, and perhaps their character is as timid and docile as that of the Indians. We should not prematurely decide that the lands of Malaya and Sumatra that believe in the true God are more valuable. ”
"And I always think that if we want to understand China, we have to go to China."
Abdul. Mohammed. It was the first time that Gaci had reached a place outside of the Ottomans, from whom he had crossed the Arabian Sea and India, stopping almost all of the European colonial ports and the territory of the British. So much so that Abdul. Mohammed. Gage himself, during this time, had a renewed understanding of the strength of the British Empire.
The architecture of each port is no different from that of Suez. Yangon Port is even the port of non-European-style architecture that he saw for the first time along the way, even after the 'peace' between China and Britain, many European businessmen and chambers of commerce returned here, and bought back the original British property from the Chinese, and the European-style architecture here is also quite extensive. But after all, the dominant ones are Chinese, and it is impossible for the Chinese customs to completely Westernize the appearance of their yamen, and it is impossible for many Chinese merchants who come to Burma to trade to completely Westernize their shops and houses.
Today's Chinese, whose national self-esteem has skyrocketed, will only maintain their own traditions with ten or a hundred times more enthusiasm than before, whether it is in life, architecture, or culture. Only the last one of these retro 'countercurrents' has been suppressed by the New Qin government to a limited extent, and the other New Qin dynasties will only be happy to see it. It's not like it was 30 years ago.
People are like that. When you are stepped into the dirt, you will deny everything about yourself, and when you are above everyone, you will inflate yourself and affirm everything about yourself!
The arrival of the Chinese filled the emptiness after the departure of the British and Indians, and the two largest trades in Burma, grain and timber processing, had been almost monopolized by the Chinese, but the large number of officials and civil servants needed by the Chinese-style government could not all be provided by China, and this was a land with a population of seven or eight million, and the number of officials and civil servants needed to fully replicate the Chinese-style government structure would make the Chinese government, which was already short of administrative personnel, even more difficult. As a result, many Burmese people have been given the opportunity to participate in politics. First of all, I would like to state that Myanmar Province does not have a parliamentary system for the time being. This is a very traditional pyramid model, and above all else is the Governor's Palace of Burma. The current Governor of Myanmar is Lu Boping! The little squire of Taiwan back then, the small village official of Lanfang. Lu Boping has been in Lanfang for more than 20 years, and it is not easy to become the number one in the capital of Lanfang, and because of the timely profit from the dispatch of material baggage in the Nanyang War, he became China's first governor of Burma when the military management of Myanmar ended last year!
Under China's moderate policies, Burma's religious and religious customs have been respected, and although the Chinese government will not restrain people from believing in Buddhism, it will never go to the countryside to loot and destroy temples.
The development of Buddhism in Myanmar has not made much progress, but the existing power has been greatly consolidated. The vast blank space of Lower Burma has not been occupied by the Green Religion, nor has it been exploited by monotheism, and atheism is difficult to thrive in Myanmar in this era, and as long as the situation does not take a 180° turn, Buddhism will one day be able to return to its former position. Lu Boping has no discrimination against Buddhism, he believes in Mazu, but many Mazu believers also pray to God and worship Buddha. Lu Boping was only out of political considerations, out of a kind of vigilance that seeped into the bone marrow, so he subconsciously wanted to suppress the recovery of Buddhism, so he attracted the worship of God from the Southern Heavenly Kingdom next door!
The Southern Heavenly Kingdom, formerly the Kingdom of Siam, is a Buddhist kingdom that is not inferior to Burma. But now, the messy worship of God has completely replaced Buddhism's position there, and Shakyamuni has become God's little brother. Such a method by the leadership of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom has caused the Buddhists in Chinese mainland to denounce Shi Dakai and others as heretical cults. But it didn't work. In addition to the old ladies at home, it is difficult for you to find a few real devout believers in the Chinese. N many Chinese merchants who had Nan Wu Guanyin Bodhisattva or Maitreya Buddha in their homes sailed to the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, and the business on both sides was very happy.
But in Lower Burma, without the intervention of the administrative force and the support of the sword, the worship of God will be able to compete with Buddhism and win, no one can say. The worship of God in the Southern Heavenly Kingdom now has elements left in the country, and they have also taken the initiative to apply for inclusion in the Religious and Religious Administration. It is now the second largest group of people spreading faith in Han China under the banner of God. Second to Roman monotheism, better than Catholic and Orthodox Christianity! (To be continued......)